Justine Dolorfino

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"The War On Kids" (2009)

This is something I’m really interested in seeing. I wrote an essay for my Emotions & Social Life class at Goldsmiths College 2 years ago about the prevalence of CCTV and how we’re all so used to being observed—

(How? Well, I theorized that it was partially due to
1) the popularity of reality TV; &
2) the increase of infotainment that has resulted in us seeing the same horrific images over and over, thus oversaturating our culture with emotions to the point where they lose their significance
but this is a little off topic and there’s a bit more to that than just those two points.)

— but I hadn’t given much thought to the impact of oversurveillance on education until this movie came to my attention. I was lucky enough to grow up in the exact opposite type of learning environment (at least, as far as I could tell we had no 24/7 surveillance!) but I think it’s important that these kinds of films are made in order to expose the negative effects of something we think can only help, not hurt.

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